Last year, my friend Dan opened a record store in Long Island and we almost immediately talked about doing an acoustic show the week whatever next record I was working on came out. The night of the final presidential debate, a bunch of us crammed into his small air-conditioned store, which soon became muggy with human sweat. I played a bunch of songs I'd never played before, with no microphones or PA system, spoke to some people, changed my shirt, drank a water and headed back home to get ready for tour. A buncha weeks later my buddy Dan e-mailed this recording and was like "heyyyy" and I was like "heyyyyyyy" and here we are!

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Recorded by Peter Gristch. Live at Vinyl Paradise in Sayville, NY on October 19th, 2016. Mastered by Jeff Rosenstock.